Dick Cheney's Suite Demands

[kurth]

Dick Cheney's Suite Demands
Veep's "rider" requires Sprite, 68 degrees, TVs tuned to Fox News

MARCH 23--After posting the performance contracts of artists like Bruce Springsteen, the Rolling Stones, and U2, The Smoking Gun has finally obtained the backstage demands of a real rock star. That's right, below you'll find a copy of Vice President Dick Cheney's standard "tour" rider. The document is provided to hotels where Cheney will be bunking and lists how the Republican pol's "Downtime Suite" needs to be outfitted. While the vice president's requests are pretty modest (no extract-the-brown-M&M demands here), Cheney does like his suite at a comfy 68 degrees. And, of course, all the televisions need to be preset to the Fox News Channel (what, you thought he was a Lifetime devotee?). Decaf coffee should be ready upon his arrival along with four cans of caffeine-free Diet Sprite. And when Cheney is traveling with his wife Lynne, the second family's suite needs an additional two bottles of sparkling water. Mrs. Cheney's H2O should be either Calistoga or, curiously, Perrier, a favored beverage of French terrorism appeasers. The document, prepared by the vice president's advance team, was obtained by TSG after it was provided to a hotel employee prior to a Cheney visit. When we asked Cheney spokesperson Jenny Mayfield about the document's reference to gifts that hotels might leave in the suite for the vice president, she told us she was unable to address that question since she had not seen the "downtime requirements" rider (she asked for a copy, which we declined to provide in advance of its publication here). At our source's request, we've blacked out the handwritten name and Washington, D.C. phone number of a Cheney staffer. As for the notations regarding extra lamps, specific newspapers, and a carafe, it is unclear whether they were added by an advance team staffer or a hotel official.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0322061cheney1.html

[NewWaveChick1981]

1. Just saw this on HuffPo...

He just THINKS he's a rock star...

[DS1]

2. All lights on. Mr. Energy strikes again

:eyes:

[MADem]

5. And "EXTRA LAMPS" handwritten in at the bottom!!!

I guess he isn't a fan of the "personal virtue" of conservation!!!!

[shain from kane]

9. How does this square that he likes it with the lights on, and his

girlfriend likes it with the lights out?

Most likely, it is right after he shoots, it's lights out.

[rfranklin]

12. did you see the demand for a bowl of colored ribbed condoms?

Extra large as well!

[shain from kane]

13. V for Viagra, n/t

[medeak]

3. Surprised he reads NYTimes n/t

[Initech]

4. If I required that kind of treatment, I would be kicked out of every hotel

in the country! What a jackass!

[MADem]

6. I've actually seen WORSE

Demands for microbrewery beer and single malt scotch and bagels and cream cheese...out in the fucking boonies, too!

Of course, this is just a DOWNTIME SUITE...not a facility for an overnight stay. This is a "crash pad" of sorts, for the VP to rest in between events. He wouldn't do an overnight in this sort of place, it would be the place he rests in between the morning speech and the PM fundraiser.

[Initech]

8. It's sad to think this is where our tax dollars are going...

[MidwestTransplant]

7. Perrier for Mrs. Cheney....how FRENCH.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

10. I hope that someday his rider includes lemon fish & 2 types of fruit

“LEMON fish with two types of vegetables” followed by “two types of fruit”. That account of the fine cuisine at Guantanamo Bay on which prisoners are dining, which has been “purchased by American taxpayers”, was crafted by Duncan Hunter, the Republican Chairman of the Armed Services Committee in the House of Representatives.

He is one of the fiercest defenders of the prison camp in Cuba in which the US holds detainees in the War on Terror. But the Administration is coming under new pressure to justify the use of the camp.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,11069-1654382,00.html

[ChoralScholar]

11. caffeine-free Diet Sprite?!?

What the hell is the point of drinking ANYTHING if you're going to drink THAT?!?

[MidwestTransplant]

14. Caffeine is no good for the ticker!